Bug#631271: texlive-binaries: xdvi no longer uncompresses .gz and .bz2 files

[Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: block -1 by 583188
Control: tag -1 + confirmed
Control: found -1 texlive-binaries/2012.20120628-4

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:

> Package: texlive-binaries
> Version: 2009-8
> Severity: normal
>
> xdvi no longer uncompresses .gz and .bz2 files. For instance:
>
> $ xdvi /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/styles/preview.dvi.gz
> xdvi.bin: Fatal error: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/styles/preview.dvi.gz: Not a DVI file.

Considering the number of .dvi.gz files shipped in Debian, I think this
is actually fairly important.

It seems probable that this is related to http://bugs.debian.org/583188
(which basically says: /usr/bin/xdvi was a perl script in TeXLive 2007,
but was rewritten in shell for TeXLive 2009, and there might be
regressions).

Also, I did actually check: it does still happen.

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